Frank Carlberg Large Ensemble - Elegy For Thelonius

With a rich blend of winds and brass, and a solid, inventive rhythm section with bassist Kim Cass and drummer Michael Sarin, Carlberg approaches the Monk canon from his own compositional standpoint, borrowing or transforming what he calls melodic "cells and splinters," re-composing or even merging different songs into new entities, with formal, improvisational and sonic results that are immediately gripping.